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Tag: 4 starred

What happens when you’re stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course.

Pagan Moore doesn’t cheat Death, but instead, falls in love with him.

Seventeen year old Pagan Moore has seen souls her entire life. Once she realized the strangers she often saw walking through walls were not visible to anyone else, she started ignoring them. If she didn’t let them know she could see them, then they left her alone. Until she stepped out of her car the first day of school and saw an incredibly sexy guy lounging on a picnic table, watching her with an amused smirk on his face. Problem is, she knows he’s dead.

Not only does he not go away when she ignores him, but he does something none of the others have ever done. He speaks. Pagan is fascinated by the soul. What she doesn’t realize is that her appointed time to die is drawing near and the wickedly beautiful soul she is falling in love with is not a soul at all.

He is Death and he’s about to break all the rules.

My Review

I came across Existence by chance and the cover just spoke to me, or maybe it was his haunted glowing eyes … So I tried the sample and I was intrigued, falling in love with death? How in the world will this end, so I did the obvious and went ahead and got it. I believe Pagan is what one would call a mediator but what they do is help souls move on but the ones in this book don’t speak at all, so all she does is ignore them. Until Dank. He was definitely a weird soul, for one, he speaks to her … among other things.

Leif, a hot jock on the school’s football team, was another jerk, an arrogant stuffed shirt or at least that was what Pagan had thought, what she’d labelled him, until she learned of his little secret when he had come to her for help with his speech problems. He wasn’t at all what she’d thought of him … not at all. So as you can imagine, they hooked up. Everything was going fine except for the fact that Dank wouldn’t leave here alone and to her surprise she found herself hopelessly falling for him … and him with her.

With the both of them knowing of their feelings for each other, what would it all lead to? They were from two completely different worlds. Dank’s appearance was not the only strange happening in the recent string of events. Souls were attacking her for some reason that eluded Pagan but Dank seems to know many things that she doesn’t. Just who is he, really? He’s not you average left-behind soul,that’s for sure, he’s something more … much more. He knows he’s not good for Pagan, he wasn’t supposed to feel this way for her and tried to tell her so but not the million dollar question: why? Of course she didn’t listen, she didn’t like being left in the dark and the following events rocked Pagan and left a gaping hole inside of her and further along leading her to a special home for the mentally unstable young women (where she met a certain fellow mental, Gee, who I wouldn’t mind befriending), an event that didn’t surprise either of us.

Overall, Existence was a good read, its not-so-original plot (hero who heroine cannot possibly be with due to paranormal circumstances) but an enjoyable one nonetheless. I felt that Pagan’s character could have been a bit more developed as well as the the supporting characters, Dank’s shrouded in mystery (you know,being Death and all) so his is fine.

A somewhat predictable ending did not prevent me from gasping after reading the very last words. I would’ve given this a 3.5 star because though interesting Existence may be it didn’t have an iron grip on me but it got a 4 because for the handsome hero (shallow of me,I know but what’s a girl to do?) who just happened to be Death (can you imagine?), the twist at the very end and the fact that it was a quick and fairly enjoyable read.

By the way I felt that I just had to share this with you; when I got this on my Kindle on Amazon, there was this line that had said ‘Existence is waiting for you in your Kindle library,’ now tell me that doesn’t sound weird to you, imagine existence waiting for moi! Okay I’m done now:)

I’ve been itching to read this for a while now and I must say it was an enjoyable read.But it felt like something was missing don’t ask me what, believe me if I knew I’d tell you.

I’ll be totally honest though, I love Mercy!I mean she could be a badass but she knows where to draw the line.She may be physically inferior(which might be too strong a word) but she makes up for it in mouthing off to authority and those above her ,but hey I can’t blame her with all of those overbearing werewolves around, she had to stand up for herself.

Mercy’s an okay gal, she’s tough, funny, caring and doesn’t like to be out of the line of fire when she knows that she could be helping.She doesn’t have tons of magic (or any of it so to speak)so that she could just wriggle her pinkie and WAM leveling the street with vampires, nope,that’s what makes me like her even more, she relies on her instincts and quick thinking rather than power.

Another thing I like about Mercy is her expressing her faith in God, she didn’t like the crucifix because it was an instrument of pain that had led to our saviour’s death so instead she carries a lamb around her neck because Jesus’ other name was “The Lamb of God”. I admit that’s also clever I mean which vampire would have thought that they’d be knocked out by a wee little lamb?